Improvement in seed-distributers



J W DOOLEY Seed-Distributor.-

No. 204,301. Patented'May 28, 1878.

ATTORNEY ILPIETEMI FIWTD-LUHOGRAFHEE WASHINGTON. I)v C seed-distributor,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN W. DOOLEY, OF MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEED-DISTRI'BUTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 204,301, dated May 28, 1878; applicationfiled March 16, 1878.

' reference being had to the annexed drawings,

making a part of this specification, and to the letters andfigures of reference marked thereon. Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a longitudinal section of my improved and Fig. 2 is a top view thereof.

This invention has relation to improvements in machines for sowing seed broadcast; and

the nature of the invention consists in combining with a carriage and a hopper mounted thereon a rotating radially-ribbed bowl, secured upon a rearwardly-inclined shaft supported by the said carriage into whichthe grain falls, and which projects and scatters the grain broadcast by centrifugal force, as will be fully set forth hereinafter.

1n the annexed drawings, the letter A designates a rectangular frame, in which the axle B of two transporting-wheels, O, has its bearings. Upon this axle is a large beveled frictional master-wheel, D, having its beveled edge a shod with leather, which is in contact with the correspondingly-shod beveled edge of a friction-wheel, E, rigidly secured upon an inclined shaft, F, having one bearing in the frame and the other in a standard, b, erected thereon.

The shaft F is at an angle of forty-five degrees to the plane of the frame A. It extends to the rear of the axle, and is provided upon its free end with a bowl, G, having a concave surface at each side of a central boss, and provided with the radial strikers or ribs 0. Grain falls into this bowl in a continuous stream from a hopper, H, the supply being regulated by a slide of the usual construction, and, as

the bowl rotates with great speed if rojected therefrom broadcast over t prepared soil in a broad belt.

The hopper is usually provided with a spout to conduct the grain to the sowing-bowl, and the master-wheel locked to the shaft or axle by a clutch device of any well-known effective description.

Having described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In a broadcast seed-sower, the combination, with a sulky, its rotating axle B, and a beveled master-wheel, D, secured thereto, of the inclined shaft F, having beveledwheel E and rotating bowl Gr, with radial ribs 0, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN W. DOOLEY. Witnesses:

J osEPH O. HETSELL, ELnoN B. BIRDsEY. 

